Thursday, March 12, 2009

Salad Days

Well, it's not quite spring yet. It's doing something between sleet and drizzle outside right now. But I'm so ready for warm weather foods — like salad! Tonight, I jumped the gun and created a delicious Seitan Chicken Anjou Salad for my cookbook:

When I make large dinner salads, I typically throw anything and everything in. Every vegetable, bean, and crunch topping (bacon bits, croutons, tortilla strips, crunchy noodles, whatever) I can find in my pantry or fridge. And while that's satisfying and very filling, sometimes it's nice to have a special salad with select ingredients that complement one another. It feels very gourmet and fancy.

On another note, I gave Celine's Butterscoth Pecan Cookies another shot tonight. This time, I cooked them for the recommended 10 minutes instead of my improvised 14 minutes. They came out chewy and perfect!

And thanks guys for your awesome smoothie suggestions. I'll be putting those to use for pre-workout snacks in the very near future!

hooray for chewy cookies! and your salad looks extra awesome! i love throwing a lot into a salad - and i can't wait to test this one out, Bianca! happy friday to you - and may you have a rock'n weekend! :)

You know, the few days of warm spring-like weather we have had thus far have really got me to craving spring time fresh foods!

I love that you added pears to your salad, and a pear vinaigrette? That sounds amazing! For some reason, it has taken me a long time to get comfortable putting fruit in a salad, but it is really good, I'm going to have to try something like this!

My name is Bianca ...

About Me

I'm an 11-year vegan, 21-year vegetarian from the Mid-South, not too far from the muddy banks of the Mississippi River. And that means cornbread, butter beans, and collard greens.
These days, I live in Memphis. Check out my cookbook — Cookin' Crunk. It's filled with yummilicious veganized soul food and country classics.